Michael Shelden:
Mark Twain: Man in White: The Great Adventure of His Final Years
 Michael Shelden is the author of three previous biographies, including Orwell, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Graham Greene. He was a correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph and a critic for the Baltimore Sun. He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University.
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Jerome Loving:
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens
 Jerome Loving is a distinguished professor of English at Texas A&M University. One of the premiere scholars of American literature, his previous books include Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Mr. Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos and tragedy of the author of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This re-examination of Twain's life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.
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Robert Hirst:
Who Is
Mark Twain?
 Robert Hirst is the general editor and official curator of the Mark Twain Project and Papers, housed at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hirst, who has been working on Mark Twain’s work for forty-two years, is the editor of Who Is Mark Twain?, a collection of twenty-four wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays and stories by Twain, none of which have ever been published before, but all of which are steeped in contemporary relevance and humor. As 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death, Who Is Mark Twain? kicks off a year of celebration for one of America's most beloved literary icons.
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